Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable.

Iowa men who were victims of child molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of America could get higher legal compensation under a bill approved by lawmakers and expected to be signed by the governor, just before the deadline to do so will expire.

The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend of ethanol for the third summer in a row.

State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings.

Strong storms have caused damage in parts of the middle U.S. and spawned tornadoes in Kansas and Iowa, including one that left two people hurt.

She's cemented her place as a college basketball legend.

The maker of a popular weedkiller is turning to lawmakers in key states to try to squelch legal claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks.

Caitlin Clark has been selected with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever.

Caitlin Clark selected with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever after record-setting college career.

Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms), according to court documents.

A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot in a rural area of Iowa, and a 12-year-old boy has been taken into custody.

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The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that inappropriate comments by employees at the state Department of Human Services did not justify a $790,000 jury award for sexual harassment.

Abortion was already a major issue in U.S. elections in 2024.

Iowa has asked the state Supreme Court to let its blocked abortion law go into effect and uphold it altogether, disputing abortion providers’ claims it infringes on women’s rights to exercise bodily autonomy.

Authorities say a man and a 13-year-old girl who both shot at officers during a pursuit in Wisconsin were later found dead and may have been involved in a slaying in Iowa.